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May, 1913 



Number 29 



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Ohio State Univeil*^ity 
Bulletin 



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NEWSPAPER 



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PUBlylSHED BY THE UNIVERSITY AT COI^UMBUS 

Entered as second-class matter November 17, 1905, 

at the postoffice at Columbus, Ohio, Under Act of 

Congress, July 16, 1894 

Monograph 



THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 



The Ohio vStateUniversit}-, located at Columlnis, forms 
a part of the public educational facilities maintained by the 
State. It comprises seven colleges and a graduate school: 

The College of Agriculture, 

The College of Arts, Philosophx- and vScience, 

The College of Education, 

The College of Engineering, 

The College of Law, 

The College of Pharmac)-, 

The College of Veterinary Medicine, 

The Graduate School. 

The courses in Journalism, to which this bulletin is de- 
voted, are offered in the College of Arts, Philosophy and 
Science. 

Correspondence in regard to these courses should be 
addressed to H. F. Harrington, State University, Colum- 
bus, Ohio. 

[XuTK — Till' UiiiviMsity puljlislics ;i Inilletin (it'sc-riptivf of eacli Collcj^e. 
Copips may bo <)l)taiiied 1)y addivs.^iiij; W. E. Maiiii, University Kditor, Ooluiii- 
burf, Oliio. and jstatiliK the coUogp in wljieli tlie writer is interested.] 

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TRAINING FOR JOURNALISM 



r> INSTRUCTORS 



WiivLiAM OxLEY Thompson, D. D., lylv. D., .. .President 

Joseph ViIvLiers Denney, M. A., Dean 

ENGLISH 

Joseph V. Denney, M. A., Professor 

Joseph R. Taylor, M. A., Professor 

George H. McKnight, Ph. D., Professor 

WiLEiAM Iv. Graves, M. A., . .;•'...... Professor 

Carson S. Duncan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor 

IvOUis A. Cooper, B. A., Assistant Professor 

Charles E. Blanchard, LE. B., Assistant Professor 

Harry F. Harrington, M. A., .... Assistant Professor 

Edwin L. Beck, M. A., Assistant Professor 

ECONOMICS AND SOCIOEOGY 

James E. Hagerty, Ph. D., Professor 

Matthew B. Hammond, Ph. D., Professor 

WiLLTAM F. Gephart, Ph. D., Professor 

Fayette A. McKenzie, Ph. D., Professor 

Oliver C. Eockhart, M. A., Professor 

Charles C. Huntington, M. A., . Assistant Professor 
Henry F. Walradt, Ph. D., Assistant Professor 

AMERICAN HISTORY 

George W. Knight, Ph. D., Professor 

Homer C. Hockett, B. E., Associate Professor 

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ph. D., Instructor 

EUROPEAN HISTORY 

Wilbur H. Sikbert, M. A., Professor 

Edgar H. McNeal, Ph. D., Associate Professor 

Clarence Perkins, Ph. D., Assistant Professor 



POLITICAL SCIENCE 

Henry R. Spencer, Ph. D., Professor 

Francis W. Coker, Ph. D., Assistant Professor 

CORRELATED DEPARTMENTvS 

Samuel C. Derby, A. M., Professor 

Latin 

JosiAH R. vSmith, a. M., Professor 

Greek 

Benjamin L. Bowen, Ph. D., Professor 

Romance Languages 

M. Blakemore Evans, Ph. D., Professor 

German 

David R. Major, Ph. D. , Professor 

Psychology 

Joseph A. Leighton, Ph. D., Professor 

Philosophy 



PRACTICAL 
JOURNALISM 



Ever}' Wednesda}' the Ohio State lyan- 
tern "comes out." 



That is all most people know about what is considered 
the largest and the best edited weekly college newspaper in 
the United States. 

So does honey come to the breakfast table and many 
do not think of the busy hive where it is manufactured with 
all the care and system possible. 

The Lantern staff and the students of journalism at the 
Ohio State University are just as busy and just as system- 
atic in their work as any other kind of hive. Twice a week 
they swarm. On Wednesday afternoon they gather about 
the great King Bee, the editor-in-chief, and from the fol- 
lowing Saturday to Monday midnight, they bring their 
findings to him, in the form of news gathered from every 
corner of the campus. 

Wednesday, the Lantern "comes out." That's all. But 
listen — try to find a lecture given on the campus or even in 
Columbus which is concerned with a university interest, 
where a Lantern reporter is not present. Look for a depart- 
ment of the teaching force which is not visited once a week 
by a Lantern reporter. Inquire for a student who holds a 
big office within a student body, who is not quizzed concern- 
ing "things doing" every few days by a Lantern reporter. 
Loiter around the Greek rooms, the machine shops, the 
cattle barns, the Library corridors, the domestic science 
kitchens, the campus spring, the President's office, the chem- 
istry "labs," or the Law steps, and see how long it will be 
until a Lantern reporter or a journalism student comes along. 

Do this, and then j^ou may understand the workings of 
the news corps which rakes, runs, snoops, 'phones, questions, 
and gets the news of the University. 

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Training for Journalism 7 

The editor-in-chief keeps an assignment book. At the 
general staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon he gives his 
reporters definite work. Each has as much as he can 
"cover," often more. Besides the regular assignments, 
each reporter is expected to bring in all other stories he 
can find. If he "falls down" on a stor}^, woe betide him, 
for the Lantern editor is a hard taskmaster. Dozens of stu- 
dents in the journalism classes strive to get on the Lantern 
staff, and those whom the editor picks, with the approval of 
the instructor in journalism, must "make good." Usually 
they do. Sometimes — 

Monday is the big day. Then the "copy "comes flooding 
in. Editorial "copy "has been read Saturday, and sent to the 
printer. But Monday is the day of the last call for stories. 

About a big table in a journalism room sits the advanced 
class in editing. At the head is the editor, wielding a big 
black pencil over the pile of "copy" beneath. He glances 
at a piece of "copy." "Too long," he decides. "Cut^. 
C-head' ' is scribbled at the top of the first sheet. 

A student copy-reader edits the ' 'copy' ' carefully. Each 
word is scanned and punctuation is placed. The unnecessary 
part is cut, the head is written and the "copy" goes back 
to the editor. He reads it again and puts it "on the hook" 
for the linotype man. 

Heads must contain the most striking feature of the 
story. They must also be uniform. Only a certain number 
of letters is allowed in a line. The ' 'bank, ' ' beneath the main 
lines of the head, must be carefully written. A dozen styles 
of heads, single column, double column, light face, and 
display type are known to Lantern copy-readers by letters. 
"C-head" is a definite name. 

Likewise there are styles of writing news on which the 
editor insists. Few stories begin with "a" or "the." The 



8 The Ohio State University 

"lead," or first sentence or paragraph of a story, must con- 
tain the most striking, the newest phase of the piece of news. 
"Get the story hot, hit it right off the bat," are the instruc- 
tions to news writers. Proof is read by students. Expert 
proof-readers are scarce. 

All through Monda^v night the boys work at the down- 
town office of the paper. Late stories must be written, 
edited, heads placed, proof read, and often it is dawn 
before the last student newspaper man takes an owl car for 
the campus neighborhood. And yet it is fascinating work 
that develops enthusiasm and efficiency. 

Tuesday is "make-up" day. Then the paper is put 
together. It is much like a puzzle. The make-up of the 
front page is most important, for here heads must be "bal- 
anced" with other heads, cuts placed where they will show 
best, and hunks, ofien literally, are cut out of stories to 
make them fit, and not run over to another page. Similar 
care is taken on the inside pages, though these are less im- 
portant. The editor-in-chief or one of his assistant editors 
"makes up," for it takes a man with quick judgment and 
practised eye to direct the printers as they dart back and 
forth between the "dummy" tables and the "make-up 
forms," obejang instructions. 

Then — a breathing spell, and Wednesday the lyantern 
is in the hands of subscribers. On the same afternoon the 
staff meets to hear the instructor in journalism criticise the 
paper for the week — stories, make-up, proof-reading, style 
everything pertaining to the fine points of newpaper build- 
ing. Again the a.ssignments for next week, again the 
scooting about the campus, again the editor's scrutiny, 
again Monday night, always the system. Thus the Lan- 
ern "comes out." 



lo The Ohio State University 

^HE COLLEGE AND^' This is the free and easy story of 

T HE OFFICE j how things are done in the advanced 

course — catalogued as Newspaper Practise — at the Ohio 
State University, where opportuity is given to apply class- 
room theory to newspaper making. That the product pro- 
duced compares favorably with metropolitan papers is the 
testimony of editors who know. The National Printer- 
Journalist^ in a recent issue commends the make-up, news- 
paper style and structure of news-stories printed in the 
Ivantern, and says that it is as good as any reputable city 
paper. 

Such commendation, perhaps, is sufficient proof of the 
worth of college training in journalism. It must be under- 
stood, however, that the University /r<?/)«;r^ for journalism; 
it does not graduate finished editors and reporters, nor does 
it attempt to do so. 

"Of course, no school can make a great editor, a great 
war correspondent or a 'star' reporter any more than it can 
make a Millet, a Lorenzo or a Henry Ward Beecher," re- 
marks the New York World. "But it can teach the right 
methods which the genius and the clod alike must observe; it 
can give protection against ignorant blunders, and it can 
show how to make use of the sources of accurate informa- 
tion. It is the function of a technical school to enable its 
graduates to handle the tools of their profession with 
correctness and facility — for force and originality, they must 
depend upon themselves." 

Such preparation is not a matter of comfortable philoso- 
phy. Just as medical schools have made their teaching prac- 
tical at the bed-side of the patient, just as sociology, psy- 
chology, pedagogy, chemistr}', agriculture and what not 
are taught by the laboratory method, just so is journalism 
instructing its young aspirants in its work-a-day problems 



Training for Journalism ii 

under the direction of instructors who unite practical 
newspaper training with class-room experience. 

At Ohio State University, the campus, the city and the 
print-shop are the laboratories. Students are taught where 
to look for news, how to write it, how to get it ready for 
publication. All of them are required to accomplish certain 
tasks in the making of the college paper. One day a student 
may be called upon to interview a man of affairs or to report 
an address; at another time to "edit" copy, write headlines, 
"make-up" the paper for the day, or work out a difficult 
editorial topic. Almost every phase of the newspaper busi- 
ness is touched in the six courses that are offered in 
journalism. In addition to the more practical assignments, 
classes meet to consider the organization of the newspaper and 
for the discussion of the manifold problems of the editorial 
chair, of news gathering associations, syndicates, and the 

like. 

Real newspapers are studied in their relation to the 
events of the day. Building of headlines to bring out the 
gist of the "story' ' and contrasting methods of news present- 
ation and editorial comment are given critical attention and 
study. An attempt is constantly made to render the student 
more wide) 5^ conversant with the hidden currents that con- 
trol the American press. Students' articles are carefully 
compared with reports appearing in well edited newspapers 
throughout the country. 

When the student who has had this training enters the 
newspaper oihce, he has learned the rudiments of the busi- 
ness. Many things he has already acquired. He approaches 
his work, as reporter, with a clear conception of what he 
is to do and how he is to do it. The newspaper begins 
where the college leaves off. The "cub" is thrown upon 
his own resources, but is spared the usual vexations of the 
beginner. In short, he has been trained for joitrnalisiu. 



The Ohio State University 13 



CONTRIBUTION I A city is often an illuminating 

OF THE CITY 1 education of itself, in keeping minds 

alert and eyes open. Its ever changing panorama is crowded 
with human interest, awaiting the man with the wandering 
eye of inquiry. Here are the currents of public opinion, 
the daily adventure of humanit};^ and the significant move- 
ment of the times — ready to be studied and analyzed. The 
life of the campus is thus made more vital and significant- 
Columbus, in particular, is well favored as a place for 
practical training in journalism. It has a population of some 
180,000 people, is the capital of the State, and the common 
center for numerous conventions, meetings and organiza- 
tions, which bring in many prominent men and women from 
all quarters. Opportunities for first-hand investigation of 
important news events and for interviewing interesting people 
are numerous. Students in journalism are given "live" 
assignments to "cover," — addresses, exhibitions, conven- 
tions, state institutions, municipal offices and the like. 
Some are assigned to explore in neglected by-waj^s. The 
news-sense is quickened by this personal contact. The 
special bent of each student is studied and developed by 
proper assignments. Young women students are given the 
same training as the men, and are not restricted to society 
reporting. Effort is constantly made to spur on individu- 
ality, to awaken latent instincts, and to broaden the sympa- 
thies of the students, especially in their attitude toward 
people of diverse social ranks. The work is humanizing. 
During the 3'ear newspaper men from the downtown 
city papers and elsewhere are invited to address the students 
in journalism. The informal shop-talks by men in active 
service have proved interesting and profitable. In the spring 
two or three da5^s are given over to the meeting of the Ohio 
College Press Association, where distinguished newspaper 
editors are invited to speak. 



14 Training for Journalism 



VALUE OF 
COLLEGE TRAINING 



The day of slip-shod journaUsm 
is past, along with the reporter of 
meagre education and limited outlook. Man}^ mod- 
ern newspaper offices now admit no applicant to their 
staffs without proof of college training. Journalism is 
attracting the intelligent men and women of the colleges and 
is offering an increasing wage for their services. News- 
paper-making is no longer a trade that exacts relatively 
little on the part of the men who do its work, but a profes- 
sion with growing requirements and responsibilities. Good 
positions await the man or woman thoroughly versed in the 
methods of newspapers and skilled in effective expression. 

^^E SCOPE "^^ ^^^ query often made rela- 

QF STUDY tive to the content of courses 



adapted to students preparing for journalism, the 
University answers that news-gathering and news-writing 
are but specialized means to higher ends. "There are too 
many bright young men who can write an article," 
remarks Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier-Jotcrnal , 
"and too few possessing a sufficiently broad education to 
fit them for higher positions and larger usefulness." 

The University recognizes that its chief business is to 
give a broad foundation rather than a narrow technical 
professional training. While in each year's work practical 
newspaper courses are required, a liberal complement of 
other studies is also required. The modern newspaper man 
needs an acquaintance with the languages, psychology, 
ethics, philosophy, economics and sociology, American and 
European history, and the methods of science — in fact, he 
needs an intelligent understanding of the world in which he 
lives. The wider his range of sympathies and the richer 
his store of knowledge, the better his preparation for news- 
paper work and for right living. 



The Ohio State University 15 



I EDUCATION 

FOR EFFICIENCY 



It is believed that the hberal 
education afforded by a full course 
in journalism will prove valuable in other fields aside from 
journalistic pursuits. Even if a young man does 
not go into the newspaper business or profession, his 
training has given him a certain alertness and breadth of 
scholarship, and his style has acquired a certain directness 
and accuracy that make for efiicienc}'. As a matter of fact, 
many former students of courses at the University have gone 
into law, some into teaching, a few of the more literary 
have written articles for the magazines. It is gratifying to 
know, however, that a goodly number of students are now 
employed as reporters and editors on newspapers of recog- 
nized standing. A few of the men are at the head of their 
own newspapers and are doing good work in the service of 
the country press. 

Students entering the University 
as freshmen are expected to complete 



OF INTEREST 
TO BEGINNERS 



English 101-104 (Paragraph Writing; before entering the 
professional journalism courses, at the same time giving at- 
tention to specified work in other departments. The intro- 
ductory course in journalism is designed to teach the stu- 
dent how to write a readable news story in firm, vigorous 
fashion, rather than to afford him a wide training in gather- 
ing news. He is not sent out on assignments until the in- 
structor is sure he knows what to do with the facts when 
they have been secured. When this has been accomplished, 
drill is given in reporting simple events that require no 
great effort or resourcefulness. The latter part of the 
course is concerned with the more complex forms of inter- 
viewing and free-lance "digging" for news. Frequent 
class-room applications are made to the principles discussed 
in the text-book. Every department of newspaper organi- 
zation is discussed. 



i6 The Ohio State University 



COURSES IN JOURNALISM 



101. Paragraph-Writing: Description and Narration. 

Two credit hours. First semester. All iustructors in 
Rnglish. 

104. Paragraph-Writing: Exposition and Argumenta- 
tion. Two credit hours. Second semester. All instructors 
in English. 

113. News-Collecting and News-Writing. Two credit 
hours. First semester. Prerequisite, English 101-104. 
Assistant Professor Harrington. 

Attention given to vocabulary and style, with drill in the 
gathering of news through exercises and assignments. The 
work of the reporter will be considered in connection with 
a discussion of the organization of the newspaper. Stu- 
dents will be sent to cover actual stories throughout the city. 
Newspaper men will address the class. Text-book, Harring- 
ton and Frankenberg's Essentials in Journalism. 

114. Newspaper Correspondence. Two credit hours. 
Second semester. Prerequisite, English 113. Assistant 
Professor Harrington. A continuation of Course 113 
with the addition of newspaper correspondence and 
feature writing. 

115. Newspaper Practise. Three credit hours. First 
vSemester. Prerequisite, English 11 3- 114. Assistant Pro- 
fes.sor Harrington. 

An advanced course intended for students who are doing 
work on the university or city papers. These students will 
be given various assignments. Practise in the writing of 
headlines, editing of newspaper copy, raaking-up and reading 
of proof will be included in the course. Weekly consulta- 
tion with the instructor. 



Training for Journalism 17 

116. Newspaper Practise. Three credit hours. Second 
semester. Prerequisite, English 113-114-115. Assistant 
Professor Harrington. A continuation of course 115 
with the addition of work in the writing and display of 
advertising matter. 

117. Editorial Work. Two credit hours. First semester. 
Prerequisite, English 113-114-115-116. Assistant Professor 
Harrington. 

The planning and writing of magazine and trade-journal 
articles will be treated in this course, as well as the special 
problems of technical journalism. 

118. Newspaper Problems. Two credit hours. Second 
semester. Prerequisite. English 117. Assistant Professor 
Harrington. 

The evolution of the newspaper will be treated in some 
detail, and attention will be given to a comparative study of 
the newspapers of to-day and to the discussion of newspaper 
problems, including the work of the country editor. 




Note — Upper classmen who have completed English 
II 3- II 4 to the satisfaction of the instructor are given the 
option of choosing between courses 11 5- 11 6, and 117-118. 
The first is a more technical course in which much practise 
is given in newspaper making, while the second enters into 
the discussion of newspaper problems and policies, with 
special investigations made by students in the course, sup- 
plemented by lectures. In some instances seniors are given 
the privilege of taking both advanced courses in the same 
year, although only with the permission of the instructor. 



The Ohio State University 



THE FOUR YEAR COURSE 



Degree: Bachelor of Arts 

Admission. In order to enter upon the course in jour- 
nalism leading to the degree in arts, applicants must first 
secure admission to the College of Arts, Philosophy and 
Science. A large number of high-schools in Ohio and other 
states are "accredited" or "recognized" by the University 
as affording adequate preparation. Graduates of these high- 
schools are admitted on certificate. For full information 
address W. E. Mann, University Editor, Columbus, Ohio, 
asking for the bulletin on Entrance Information. 
Recommendations for the Freshman Year 

Paragraph-Writing (English 101-104); A Survey 
OF English and American Literature (English 131- 
134). One Foreign Language (German, French, Spanish, 
Latin or Greek) ; Political History of the United 
States (American History 101-102) ; Chemistry or Physics 
(the one not already studied for a full year in the high- 
school. The requirement is waived for those who have had 
a year of each). Total: 15 or 16 hours. 

Recommendations for the Sophomore Year 

News-Collecting, News-Writing, and Corre- 
spondence (English 113-114); Descriptive Narrative, 
AND Expository Writing (English 107-108); Nine- 
teenth Century Essayists (English 137-138); Econom- 
ics (135-136); or the Principles of Sociology (Sociology 
1^1-102); One Foreign Language (Not required of those 
credited, on admission, with six high-school years of lan- 
guage other than English); Physiology, Botany, or 
Zoology (Not required of those credited, on admission, 
with one full j-ear of Botany or Zoology in the high-school) ; 
General Psychology. Total: 15 or 16 hours. 



Training For Journalism 19 

Recommendations for the Junior Year 

Newspaper Practise (English 11 5- 11 6); The Short 
Story and Verse- Writing (English 157-158); English 
Words and the History of English (127-128); English 
History (European History 103-104); Constitutional 
Government (Political Science T01-102); Coukses in 
Economics and Sociology; Political Parties in the 
United States (American History 109- no). In lieu of any 
of the above courses, excepting the first, other subjects may 
be substituted, after consultation, or subjects not taken in 
the lists recommended for preceding years. Total: 15 or 16 
hours. 

Recommendations for the Senior Year 
Editorial Work and Newspaper Problems (English 
117-118); The Novel (English 155-156); Dramatic Crit- 
icism (English 167-168, 169-170); Courses in Economics 
and Sociology; American Diplomatic History (Ameri- 
can History 113-114); Europe in the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury (European History III- 1 12); Municipal Govern- 
ment (Political Science 106). In lieu of any of the above 
courses, excepting the first, other subjects may be substi- 
tuted, after consultation, or subjects not taken in the list 
recommended for preceding years. 

The subjects recommended above are described (under 
the name and number given in parenthesis) in the Bulletin 
of the College of Arts, Philosophy and Science, which may 
be obtained by addressing the University Editor. 

Letters of inquiry relative to the work in journalism 
are welcomed by Mr. Harrington. Personal interviews may 
be arranged at his office in the English Building. An 
added interest is taken in students who come from country 
newspaper offices to take advantage of facilities offered by 
the University. 



20 The Ohio State University 

1 ABOUT SPECIAL WORK | 

Students who desire to pursue special lines of work and 
do not desire to become candidates for a degree, will be 
admitted on the following conditions: 

1 . The regular entrance requirements must be satisfied. 

2. But applicants who are not less than twenty-one 
years of age, after obtaining credit for the common English 
branches and for such other subjects as may be necessary to 
qualify them for the classes that they wish to enter, may, 
on the presentation of satisfactory reasons, be admitted to 
any class in college; provided, that if any student who has 
been admitted on these conditions afterwards becomes a can- 
didate for a degree, he shall pass the omitted entrance exam- 
inations at least twelve months before the degree is con- 
ferred. 

3. Before entering the college, students desiring to 
pursue special work, are required to lay before the Executive 
Committee, for approval or modification, a written state- 
ment of the end they have in view, the studies proposed for 
the attainment of that end, and the probable period of attend- 
ance. Such students will be held as strictly to their accepted 
schemes of work as are the regular undergraduates to the 
course of study. 

4. Permission to enter as a special undergraduate will 
be refused to all who fail to give satisfactory evidence of 
definiteness of purpose, and will be withdrawn whenever the 
conditions on which it was granted cease to exist. 



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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The Ohio State Universit)- Bulletin is published at 
least twenty times during the year as follows: Monthl}- 
in July, August, September and June, and bi-weekly 
in October, November, December, January, I'ebru- 
ary, March, April and May. 



